Saarland, Germany public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; German Unity Day falls on Saturday 3 October and is not moved; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November and is not moved; Second Day of Christmas falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Germany has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 8 weekdays in Saarland, three fewer than in 2025.

Germany has no statutory substitute days: a public holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday, so the following Monday stays a working day in these counts. Each German state sets its own public holidays on top of the nine that apply everywhere.

Public holidays in 2026

12 dates are counted as non-working in Saarland in 2026; 8 of them fall on a weekday.

Working days and hours by month

Working days are Monday to Friday minus the counted holidays. Hours are shown for a 7.5-hour and an 8-hour working day.

• Jan 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 18 working days in May, 3 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 22 working days in December, 2 holidays

Compare with the rest of Germany

Long weekends in 2026

Runs of three or more days off in a row without taking leave.

• 4 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 23 May 2026 to Monday 25 May 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 27 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

The longest single break for each number of leave days, built around a public holiday.

Leave plans for the whole year

Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.

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Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

Count working days between two dates

Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

About public holidays in Saarland

Saarland has twelve statutory holidays, all of them statewide, the same number as Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg and the statewide list of Bavaria, and the most any state has. The extra ones come from its strongly Catholic tradition. Besides the nine days common to Germany it keeps Corpus Christi, All Saints' Day on 1 November and the Assumption of Mary on 15 August. In Bavaria the Assumption is a holiday only in municipalities with a mainly Catholic population; in Saarland it applies to the whole state without any local test.

Saarland is also the only state where 15 August is a day off for everyone, which makes mid-August a natural point for a short break. Rhineland-Palatinate, its northern and eastern neighbour, has the same list except for the Assumption, so the Saarland border marks a one-day difference every year. Reformation Day on 31 October, a holiday in the eastern states and in several northern ones, is not observed here, nor is Epiphany.

The state fixes all of these days by date or by their link to Easter, so nothing is decided year by year. In 2027 the Easter-linked days are Good Friday on 26 March, Easter Monday on 29 March, Ascension Day on 6 May, Whit Monday on 17 May and Corpus Christi on 27 May. That year the Assumption falls on a Sunday and All Saints' Day on a Monday.

A weekend Assumption is something to plan around. German state laws do not move a holiday that lands on a Saturday or Sunday, and employers owe no day in lieu. The count on this site follows that approach: a weekend holiday stays on the list, but it removes no weekday from the working total. So 15 August 2027, a Sunday, means a lost holiday, not an extra Monday.

Some local habits should not be confused with holidays. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are working days under the law, though many firms close at midday or give the time off by agreement. Local fairs and school holidays do not alter the figures, and neither do the parish festivals held in individual towns. Employees of businesses that trade across the French and Luxembourg borders may follow a different calendar by contract; the figures here show only the state's own legal days.

Source and last check

Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: 15 November 2026.

Sources

• https://recht.saarland.de/bssl/document/jlr-NNLSL0000A2D6NN00000000007
• https://www.landesrecht.rlp.de/bsrp/document/jlr-NNLRP00006125
• https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/BayFTG/true

How the counts are made